Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

A magical storyteller's timeless tales. Here are 127 of Andersen's classic stories, translated by "Mrs. Edgar Lucas" in the 19th century. Included are such well-known tales as "The Emperor's New Suit", "The Little Match-Seller", "Thumbelina", "The Little Mermaid", and "The Snow Queen".

Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales

The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter are now available as a downloadable, digital audiobook, complete and unabridged! The 23 tales in this set have never lost their popularity, and sell in their millions all over the world. Meet again the famous characters that children love and adore: Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, The Flopsy Bunnies, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, Tom Kitten, Jeremy Fisher, Jemima Puddle-Duck and many more. These stories are beautifully brought to life by a talented cast of readers.

Grimm's Fairy Stories

A collection of classic Brothers Grimm fairy tales, pulled from Margaret Hunt's 1884 translation. Including: The Little Brother and Little Sister", "Hansel and Gretel", "Oh, If I Could but Shiver!", "Dummling and the Three Feathers", "Little Snow-White", "Frederick and Catherine", "The Valiant Little Tailor", "Little Red-Cap", "The Golden Goose", "Bearskin", "Cinderella", "Faithful John", "The Water of Life", "Thumbling", "Briar Rose", and "The Six Swans," among others.

Ladybird Classics: The Complete Audio Collection

Ladybird Classics are sensitively retold versions of the most-loved children's classic stories and are specially designed to appeal to a younger audience. Told in a warm and accessible style and accompanied by fun and vibrant music, this digital download is a perfect introduction to the classics for young children.

The Little Elephant Who Wants to Fall Asleep: A New Way of Getting Children to Sleep

The bedtime audiobook parents are raving about! The author of the global best seller The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep is back with another story using all-new child-tested, parent-approved techniques to make bedtime a sweet and tender end to each day. Your child joins Ellen the Elephant on a journey through a magical forest that leads to sleep. Along the way they meet different fantastical characters and have calming experiences that will help your child to relax and slip into slumber quickly.

Bedtime Meditations for Kids

Captivating bedtime meditations to bring peace, joy, and calm to the end of the day. There are three segments in this audio, each approximately 18 minutes in length. Choose from: By the Sea, An Adventure in Space, and Snowflake. May be used any time for general relaxation as well as bedtime.

Winnie the Pooh (Dramatised)

Here is an award-winning production with an all-star cast, bringing to life one of the best loved and recognised children's books of all time. This is a full dramatisation with specially composed music.

A Little Princess

Written by British-born author Frances Hodgson Burnett and first published in 1905, A Little Princess tells the story of young Sara Crewe, privileged daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant. All the other girls at Miss Minchin's school treat Sara as if she truly were a princess. But when Captain Crewe's fortune is sadly lost, Sara's luck changes. Suddenly she is treated no better than a scullery maid.

Phantoms

They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.

English Fairy Tales

While fairy tales were not originally intended for children, they have become a staple of children's literature since the early 19th century. Here is a collection of English fairy tales, including many stories you will remember from childhood.

Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest Continues

Fingerprints of the Gods is the revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of listeners throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society. An intellectual detective story, this unique history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain.

The Andromeda Strain

The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: Current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated reentry to the atmosphere.

Sense and Sensibility

When Mrs. Dashwood is forced by an avaricious daughter-in-law to leave the family home in Sussex, she takes her three daughters to live in a modest cottage in Devon. For Elinor, the eldest daughter, the move means a painful separation from the man she loves, but her sister Marianne finds in Devon the romance and excitement which she longs for.

The Magic Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton's much loved The Faraway Tree stories read by Kate Winslet are now available as unabridged audio downloads for the first time. The Magic Faraway Tree is the second magical story in the Faraway Tree series by the world's best-loved children's author, Enid Blyton. When Joe, Beth and Frannie move to a new home, they discover an Enchanted Wood just outside their doorstep. Soon they find the Faraway Tree, which is the beginning of many magical adventures...

Boy: Tales of Childhood

Puffin presents the new, unabridged audiobook edition of Roald Dahl's best-selling autobiography Boy, read by Dan Stevens from Downton Abbey. Throughout his young days at school and just afterwards, a number of things happened to Roald Dahl, which made such a tremendous impression he never forgot them. Boy is the remarkable story of Roald Dahl's childhood; tales of exciting and strange things - some funny, some frightening, all true.

Wuthering Heights

The passionate and tragic story of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff is one of the high points of nineteenth-century Romantic literature. In the relationship of Cathy and Heathcliff, and in the wild, bleak Yorkshire Moors of its setting, Wuthering Heights creates a world of its own, conceived with a disregard for convention and an instinct for poetry and the darkest depths of the human soul in torment.

Publisher's Summary

Twenty four classic fairy tales compiled in 1905 by Hamilton Wright Mabie, this enchanting book isn't your Disney classic. Little Red Riding Hood does get eaten by the Big Bad Wolf, but in most cases the princes and princesses go on to live long and happy lives and the wicked step mothers get their just dues.

"One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes", "The Magic Mirror", "The Enchanted Stage", "Hansel and Gretel", "The Story of Aladdin; or The Wonderful Lamp", "The History of Ali Baba and of the Forty Robbers Killed by One Slave", "The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor", "The White Cat", "The Golden Goose", "The Twelve Brothers", "The Fair One With the Golden Locks", "Tom Thumb", "Blue Beard", "Cinderella; or The Little Glass Slipper", "Puss in Boots", "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood", "Jack and the Bean-Stalk," "Jack the Giant Killer", "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Three Bears", "The Princess on the Pea", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Light Princess", and "Beauty and the Beast".

If you could sum up Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know in three words, what would they be?

my kids hates the voice of the narrator..he shows no emotions..he reads like a professor..

Would you be willing to try another one of John Michaels’s performances?

no

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Jennifer L Smith

01/05/12

Overall

Performance

Story

"Sounded like a computer was reading it!"

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Narrator was awful. Turned it off after five minutes - I was bored by it - no way my 2 1/2 year old would listen to it. So disappointed. Want to return it!

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Kendra

Milwaukie, OR, United States

04/08/10

Overall

"Good Stories, Bad Audio"

I know that most voice actors don't do fairy tails because it takes a lot of different voices. Like when you were little and Mom or Dad read you a bedtime story or when you read a book to your little one. I was just expecting a story to keep my little one amused on a long trip. Audible.com has just spoild me with great voices telling a storys that are vivid, not reading Tech manuals.

2 of 3 people found this review helpful

Sarah Larsen

20/05/15

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Performance

Story

"Narrator is Awful!!"

The stories are great but the narrator is so unpleasant to listen to. skip this.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Stephiejoe

Maine

29/01/15

Overall

Performance

Story

"Snore!"

Any additional comments?

The narrator was painful to listen to. Sounded robotic, without much enthusiasm. Didn't get past the first story. Waste of a credit.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Cookie

Millville, NJ, United States

09/06/13

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Performance

Story

"The Introduction was very boring,"

What would have made Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know better?

I needed a story to put my great grandson to fall asleep, not cry to hear a story~

Would you ever listen to anything by Hamilton Wright Mabie again?

If you cut out the introduction

Would you be willing to try another one of John Michaels’s performances?

if there is not another 15 mins of stuff I already know

What character would you cut from Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know?

one eye two eyes and three eyes~

Any additional comments?

I would like to return this book and I only gave it one star cause I had to

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Elizabeth

Troy, IL, United States

29/04/13

Overall

Performance

Story

"Don't Do It!!"

This was so disappointing. My daughter commutes with me in the morning and we like to listen to audiobooks together. I thought for sure she would love listening to these fairy tales. The problem? It's written in early 1900s English and is just so dry. I couldn't even make it through the first couple minutes of each story.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Michelle

CLEMSON, SC, United States

29/10/12

Overall

Performance

Story

"Fairy Tales told by a computer"

Would you try another book from Hamilton Wright Mabie and/or John Michaels?

This book sounds like it's being read by a computer. It's difficult to understand has does not have the cadence of a human voice. The writing isn't the problem; the reading is.

Would you ever listen to anything by Hamilton Wright Mabie again?

Not if it has the sound quality of this recording, no.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of John Michaels?

Absolutely not.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappiontment

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Adam

Sandton, South Africa

12/05/11

Overall

"Did not enjoy Narrator"

My children found the narrator to be difficult to understand. Perhaps it was the sound quality or his poor vocal variety. Whatever, personally, the way it was narrated also failed to capture my attention

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

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